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Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation by BiteCode_dev on Friday December 17, 2021 @05:31AM (#29590340)
You can't eat a smartphone, you can't sleep in an internet connection, you can't do your nursing job through a computer.

Formal education is more expensive. A balanced diet is harder to get, and more expensive. Housing is more expensive near your work. But gas as well if you live far from it.

Today's people debt is higher, and you can't easily work one job, raise a family, and afford education plus buy a home.

It was more common in the 70'.

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Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation by whimsicalism on Friday December 17, 2021 @09:58AM (#29593004)
Oh come on. People were literally starving in the US in the 60s-70s. Not really something that is easy to happen nowadays, even if it is difficult to get a balanced diet.
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Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation by NoGravitas on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:23PM (#29597113)
One in 9 people in the US suffers from food insecurity (not having regular access to adequate meals). During the height of the disruptions from the pandemic last year, one in 4 households experienced food insecurity.

Sources:

https://sail.gmu.edu/program/hunger-banquet-2021/hunger https://www.npr.org/2020/09/27/912486921/food-insecurity-in-...

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Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation by Shuang1 on Friday December 17, 2021 @04:10PM (#29598390)
Why are you bringing up "food insecurity" rather than deaths by starvation which is an objective measure of food shortness, and what the person you replied to is talking about?

How many people starve to death in the United States?

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Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation by monopoledance on Friday December 17, 2021 @05:51AM (#29590493)
Let's not forget securities. Today most people live in some state of constant existential dread, because they know, if they somehow lose the flat, they can't afford a new contract; they can't plan long term, as their job isn't safe (although, that point is in interesting turmoil right now, /r/antiwork and all); they can't work towards a pension plan; ...

The promise of salvation past generations had with their working lifestyle doesn't hold truth anymore. I think that's why we see more "new religions" popping up right now, like conspiracy narratives, new nationalism, "white man identities" (the group without a distinct identity in the past; their self-efficacy experiences seem to be in decline, too), the MLM-fantasy of self-employment/all-in hacks/dire fight for "untapped markets" (podcasts, porn, stock market ...).

Late stage capitalism.

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